Hands up

Two years ago today, the US - with British assistance - launched a massive assault against the Iraqi city of Falluja. Hundreds of civilians were killed, tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes and white phosphorus was used as a weapon. Since then the killing has continued. According to the recent Lancet survey, "coalition" forces have killed 186,000 Iraqis since the 2003 invasion and were responsible for over one in four violent deaths during the period June 2005 to June 2006. Tomorrow, Maya Evans will be interviewed at Charing Cross police station for the "crime" of organising an "unauthorised" (but entirely peaceful) peace camp in Parliament Square to mark the second anniversary of the attack on Falluja. We wish to record that we also helped to organise this event and reiterate our demand for an immediate end to the US-UK military occupation of Iraq.
Steve Barnes, Glenn Bassett, Gabriel Carlyle, David King, Martin Newell, David Polden, Jonathan Stevenson, Sue Wood The Mass Action Group